mentoring - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

For senior managers at many firms, the shift to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic came with a huge concern: Would the loss of in-person conversations keep them from mentoring or simply establishing rapport with employees,... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

04 Apr 2022
What Do You Think?

As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?

Mentoring? There was negligible response to last month’s column. Either there was little interest in the topic of reverse mentoring or potential respondents may have been discouraged from responding by Stac, whose lone response raised a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

When Gender Changes the Negotiation

candidate's mentor. The negotiators were given no reference points or standards for agreement, creating a highly ambiguous negotiation. Female executives negotiating as the mentor secured compensation that was 18 percent higher than the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina W. Pradel, Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn

March 2015
Case

BOLT: Seed Venture Capital Firm

By: William A. Sahlman and Robert F. White

BOLT is a different kind of seed venture capital firm built to serve the needs of early-stage startups at the intersection of hardware and software.

In the past decade, the cost of entrepreneurial experimentation has dropped dramatically, particularly in web... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Accelerator; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Venture Capital; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Strategy

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22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women

progress? Making it easier for women to file patents would help. Providing additional mentoring and support, making sure women feel included in startup culture, and creating inclusive events at schools and technology transfer offices are... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

11 Jul 2016
HBS Case

Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

when the CEO sends out a companywide email, are you supposed to reply? That’s where the soft skills training comes in. After landing a job, Autism at Work participants are given mentors and team buddies—existing SAP employees who... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

gone. This is an opportunity to learn Slack and Zoom and have a mentor teach you how to use these tools. The second thing is, working remotely is very effective if you can also restructure the organizational processes for how... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

and lateral, internal and external to the organization). From these developmental relationships (e.g., mentors or sponsors), potential managers can better learn from their own experiences by receiving feedback, advice, and emotional... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

27 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

company and a “culture carrier” who has an ongoing relationship with the employee—albeit, a virtual one. Regularly scheduled conversations would give the employee opportunities to ask questions they might not otherwise ask and the mentor... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

18 Dec 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

according to Sasser, a Baker Foundation Professor. These employees enjoy access to talent-identification systems. Big organizations can point to formal programs led by individuals whose sole responsibility is to find and mentor... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

these hypotheses with HBS colleague and mentor Max Bazerman, a leading ethics scholar, who had a different theory. "Max told me, 'I'll bet people are doing this because they feel bad that their papers aren't being downloaded as much as... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Nov 2022
What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

teammates engage with each other to connect, network, create? Personal experiences varied. Jacob Navon said that, “ one cannot substitute f2f when it comes to building culture and mentoring new hires Besides, WFH (work from home) is a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

mock class to a lecture hall full of their colleagues, who play the roles of students and mentors in providing feedback after the fact.) Interactive learning through office norms Less formally, however, managers can create more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

10 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points

Her boss, the head of their department, had been a mentor and champion throughout Michelle's time at the company. Michelle had worked for this boss for almost ten years and credited the woman's support and wise counsel for her own... View Details

Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson

29 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

character, and not too fickle nor an idler, but rather aspires to acquire both honour and profit or victory in war, Cortugli opines, “then we can say that he is suitable material for a career in trade.” And if that is the case, he should learn his trade with an outside... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

mentorship on steroids. While a mentor may provide valuable career advice and an empathetic ear, a sponsor will actively advocate for a protégé’s career—formally and publicly recommending her for high-profile projects or job promotions.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

perpetuates income and wealth disparities. “Not having anyone in our immediate network that could mentor and advise us made it harder and more expensive for us,” Hatcher says in the case, recalling the sale of an earlier venture. When... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

13 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

mentoring younger colleagues in the demanding situation instead of being impeding roadblocks. 5. Lead by example: servant leadership style From day one at the helm of Bayern Munich, Flick acted as a humble role model of a team player with... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports

02 Aug 2007
What Do You Think?

How Will Millennials Manage?

email, among others, that "the new disinterested treatment of our fellow man will be the norm, not the exception." Just how millennials realize their full potential as managers was a matter of discussion. According to Mou Sengupta, "It is the job of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

08 Feb 2021
Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

get out of an unpleasant work situation, but to redirect time and energy into something that would be both more fulfilling for him and also allow him to create more good in the world, such as mentoring doctoral students or commenting on a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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